North Central Media Specialists

Building Bridges to Student Learning and Achievement

Fall 2011 Meeting

Highland High School

The Latest from Joyce Valenza's NeverEndingSearch Blog

NeverEndingSearch

• On immersive technologies and the library: a visit with author Jamie Donally
• WalkWoke: an iOS app for your student activists (and a media literacy opp)
• On that video about non-book reading
• Google Science Journal: A lab in your pocket
• A big list of options for connecting globally
• On wrapping it up with a meme: reflecting on the semester
• The 5-Clue Challenge (#5cluechallenge)
• The Noun Project, impressively integrated
• SweetSearch: an update and three tools for your kids’ utility belts
• Fake News or Free Speech: Is There a Right to be Misinformed? (Free webinar!)

New Releases!

Empowering Learners: Guidelines for School Library Media Programs, AASL (replaces Information Power 2) http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2682

Standards for the 21st-Century Learner in Action by AASL
http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=2601

School Libraries Count

View 2008 Study Results from AASL